Social Skills Contracts in Hertfordshire

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 244 169 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 28.77% 22.12% 20.97%
As % of the General category 47.47% 40.63% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 94 84
10th Percentile £172 £210 £140
25th Percentile £263 £300 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -5.56% +1.12%
75th Percentile £491 £597 £528
90th Percentile £706 £705 £671
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 25 11
10th Percentile - £48.85 £12.60
25th Percentile - £49.00 £14.57
Median hourly rate £38.12 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.47% +50.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £67.65 -
East of England median hourly rate £21.50 £14.50 £13.66
% change year-on-year +48.28% +6.15% +1.19%

All General Skills
Hertfordshire

Social Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 514 416 448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 60.61% 54.45% 55.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 214 240
10th Percentile £200 £245 £185
25th Percentile £325 £388 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile £575 £697 £638
90th Percentile £700 £838 £738
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 86 61
10th Percentile - £46.88 £17.50
25th Percentile £38.12 £53.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
East of England median hourly rate £38.12 £19.81 £15.50
% change year-on-year +92.43% +27.81% +3.33%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in Hertfordshire

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 7 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stevenage +5 130 £339 +5.86% 71
Hatfield 0 37 £330 -40.00% 9
Watford +1 22 £350 -22.22% 42
Hemel Hempstead +10 18 £600 +4.35% 31
Welwyn Garden City 0 11 £400 -20.00% 6
St Albans +3 9 - - 18
Borehamwood - 4 - - 8
Royston +7 3 - - 7
Hertford - 2 £350 - 6
Rickmansworth -1 1 £350 -26.32% 4
Social Skills
East of England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.64%) IIS
2 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.23%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.23%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.82%) SAS
4 1 (0.41%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.41%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.41%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.41%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.41%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.82%) Shopify
2 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 5 (2.05%) AWS
1 5 (2.05%) SaaS
2 3 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (0.82%) BigCommerce
3 2 (0.82%) Snowflake
4 1 (0.41%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (0.41%) Azure
4 1 (0.41%) Bloomreach
4 1 (0.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.48%) Modbus
1 28 (11.48%) RS-422
1 28 (11.48%) RS-485
2 6 (2.46%) Ethernet
2 6 (2.46%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.64%) Wireless
4 2 (0.82%) Network Security
4 2 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.41%) DHCP
5 1 (0.41%) Firewall
5 1 (0.41%) LAN
5 1 (0.41%) VPN
5 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.82%) MS Access
1 2 (0.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.41%) Big Data
2 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.41%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (0.41%) Metadata
2 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.41%) Redis
2 1 (0.41%) SQLPlus
2 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (3.69%) Visual Studio
2 6 (2.46%) Eclipse
3 3 (1.23%) Git
3 3 (1.23%) ReSharper
4 2 (0.82%) JIRA
4 2 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.41%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 66 (27.05%) Finance
2 64 (26.23%) Electronics
3 58 (23.77%) Organisational Skills
4 53 (21.72%) Influencing Skills
5 36 (14.75%) Manufacturing
6 35 (14.34%) Retail
7 33 (13.52%) Aerospace
8 31 (12.70%) Marketing
9 22 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.46%) Military
11 6 (2.46%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.46%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.05%) French Language
12 5 (2.05%) Law
12 5 (2.05%) Legal
13 4 (1.64%) German Language
14 2 (0.82%) Games
15 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.41%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (15.16%) Software Engineer
2 35 (14.34%) Architect
3 31 (12.70%) Test Architect
4 23 (9.43%) C++ Software Engineer
5 21 (8.61%) Analyst
6 11 (4.51%) Technical Analyst
7 10 (4.10%) Support Analyst
7 10 (4.10%) Support Engineer
7 10 (4.10%) Technical Support
7 10 (4.10%) Technical Support Analyst
8 8 (3.28%) Consultant
8 8 (3.28%) Developer
8 8 (3.28%) Project Manager
9 7 (2.87%) Coordinator
9 7 (2.87%) Senior
10 6 (2.46%) Administrator
11 5 (2.05%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.05%) C# Software Engineer
12 4 (1.64%) Desktop Engineer
12 4 (1.64%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.69%) Web Services
2 7 (2.87%) Node.js
3 5 (2.05%) HTML
4 4 (1.64%) CSS
4 4 (1.64%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.64%) REST
4 4 (1.64%) Visualforce
5 3 (1.23%) .NET
5 3 (1.23%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.82%) VML
7 1 (0.41%) Kafka
7 1 (0.41%) Middleware
7 1 (0.41%) RESTful
7 1 (0.41%) SAP PI
7 1 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.52%) Self-Motivation
2 32 (13.11%) Analogue Electronics
3 7 (2.87%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.46%) FMCG
5 5 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.64%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.82%) BYOD
7 2 (0.82%) EPoS
7 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.82%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.41%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.41%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.41%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.41%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.41%) IoT
8 1 (0.41%) PropTech
8 1 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.15%) Windows
2 12 (4.92%) Linux
3 4 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.23%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.82%) Android
5 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.41%) CentOS
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (39.75%) Project Management
2 51 (20.90%) Agile
3 50 (20.49%) Business Strategy
4 47 (19.26%) Business Development
5 46 (18.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 41 (16.80%) Software Engineering
7 37 (15.16%) Unit Testing
8 35 (14.34%) Continuous Integration
9 34 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (13.93%) TDD
10 32 (13.11%) Test Strategy
11 31 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (12.30%) Customer Requirements
12 30 (12.30%) Time Management
13 29 (11.89%) DevOps
14 28 (11.48%) Pair Programming
14 28 (11.48%) Software Testing
15 26 (10.66%) Decision-Making
16 21 (8.61%) Customer Service
17 20 (8.20%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 38 (15.57%) C#
2 34 (13.93%) C++
3 29 (11.89%) C
4 11 (4.51%) SQL
5 10 (4.10%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.05%) Python
7 4 (1.64%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.23%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.41%) Ada
9 1 (0.41%) Java
9 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.41%) R
9 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 66 (27.05%) Security Cleared
2 59 (24.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.51%) Degree
4 8 (3.28%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (2.46%) PMP
7 5 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.05%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.82%) ACCA
8 2 (0.82%) CCENT
8 2 (0.82%) CCNP
8 2 (0.82%) CIMA
8 2 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.41%) CCNA
9 1 (0.41%) CCSA
9 1 (0.41%) CISSP
9 1 (0.41%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.41%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.41%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.87%) SLA
3 5 (2.05%) PMO
3 5 (2.05%) QA
4 3 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.82%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) PMBOK
System Software
1 13 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.41%) Docker
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.41%) KVM
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (1.64%) SCCM
2 3 (1.23%) WSUS
3 1 (0.41%) Ansible
3 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (10.25%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.56%) SAP
3 9 (3.69%) Cisco
4 7 (2.87%) VMware
5 6 (2.46%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.23%) Adobe
6 3 (1.23%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (1.23%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.82%) Apple
7 2 (0.82%) Optimizely
7 2 (0.82%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.82%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.82%) Sophos
8 1 (0.41%) Genesys
8 1 (0.41%) IBM
8 1 (0.41%) Juniper
8 1 (0.41%) Peregrine
8 1 (0.41%) Remedy
8 1 (0.41%) Siemens